You live in a house of pebbles. Breathing sparingly as to not crumble your carefully constructed walls- keeping all at a distance, keeping you trapped. You are crying out to leave but no one hears your tears. You move so carefully as to not disrupt your convincing. You cry out for help- yet still, no one hears; your sobbing barely breaking the silence. You've been here for too long: admiring all the smoothly-shappen rocks. You've constructed your masterpiece, and yet you cannot share it. You've trapped yourself in, and locked the others out. It's been to long- you scream, no words are formed- just the loudness leaves you now. You befriend it, and let all the pain leave your body with this one mustered up scream. The stones fall all around you now; and with them you crumble to the ground. you lay there shaking now, surrounded by your pebbles. A lost empire, yet a smile breaking on your face, A love lost, a new path gained.